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Wearing: Vivienne Tam<\/a> mesh maxi dress + Naked Wardrobe bodysuit<\/a>, feat.<\/em> photography by Irving Penn<\/p><\/div>\n

This past week has been especially dreary. I’m restless, and no matter how hard I try to sleep off the inner imbalance, I can’t: somehow, my body is bearing the brunt of this nameless stress. I knew it wasn’t cabin fever (I’m a homebody at heart), and the stormy weather couldn’t be blamed entirely for this mood, either. For days I slept without sleeping, and read without reading\u2014and it wasn’t until this morning when I realized the cause. Every fiber of my being knew before my brain could compute the root of the listlessness: my body knew that I had all too quickly accepted this way of life as my new norm.<\/p>\n

It’s an unsettling realization, to say the least. Of course it’s frightening: just a month ago, none of us could have imagined that a pandemic would sweep the nation, that our world would feel so dystopian. Every time an ambulance drives by, my heart drops. When I don’t check in with my parents for a day, they panic. And when they don’t, I do. Everything is off\u2014covered in a filmy, eerie grey\u2014and just when I thought I could get through this<\/em>, I’m faced with reality. No matter how independent, fearless, or introverted you are, this will affect you. Living in fear of losing to COVID-19 will fog your eyes and pollute your heart if you let it.<\/p>\n

My mistake was refusing to acknowledge that these feelings would exist.<\/p>\n

\"heretic

Heretic Parfum Flower Porn<\/em> fragrance<\/a>, feat.<\/em> campaign photography by Maurice Harris + The Invention of Nature<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Starting tonight, I’m taking my own advice<\/a> and allowing myself the space to just be<\/em>, and be present. So far I’ve been indulgent, misting a precious sample of Heretic Parfum’s Flower Porn<\/em><\/a> onto my wrists so it seeps into the fabric of this archival Vivienne Tam dress. How apropos, no? A sheer, mesh maxi with Chinese-inspired embroidery outlining the most sensual parts of a woman\u2014the d\u00e9colletage, wait, hips\u2014in an hourglass formation, can coupled with an explicit (yet clean!) floral fragrance? It’s almost too kitsch, but I am who I am.<\/p>\n

I’m hardly a votary of floral perfumes and yet for this one, for Heretic, I could be a strict devotee of Flower Porn<\/em>. If not for the name, then for its story: what could be more evocative than a fragrance inspired by the back rooms of a flower market? It’s flower-on-flower at its finest, capturing a bouquet at its most fragrant, dewy form and after it’s been sitting in water for just a\u00a0little too long<\/em>. Think summertime in New York’s flower district; Dutch Flower Line<\/a> in June.<\/p>\n

Spicy. Dirty. Green, but gritty. Florals gone bad.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

.\u00a0 \u00a0.\u00a0 \u00a0.<\/p>\n

xx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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